Overshoot a traffic light, and decide to reverse back to not block incoming cars? We’ve all been there. Not everyone is capable of doing so safely, though. For some, it can go very, very wrong.

Originally shared on Reddit, this helmet cam video shows a Toyota RAV4 trying to reverse back after overshooting a stop light. Inexplicably though, the person behind the wheel – apparently a student driver – backed up at a considerable speed, right into a stationary motorcyclist.

If that’s not bad enough, instead of stopping upon first impact, the driver continued on reversing, rolled over the bike, to then come to a rest on top of it. The motorcyclist, the person who released the video, was lucky enough to have jumped away in time. His Honda CBR 125 JC50, though, wasn’t as fortunate.

Now folks, when behind the wheel, it’s important to remember that you’re not the only one on the road. There are other road users too, i.e. other cars, motorcycles, and even pedestrians. It is absolutely vital to check your surroundings through all means available – through the windows, mirrors, reverse camera, etc. – before making any sudden manoeuvres; more so if you’re planning on reversing.

Spatial awareness is key to keeping yourself and others safe on the roads. One feature that helps with rear visibility tremendously is a reverse camera, so do consider such an upgrade for your own cars.

Preferring to drive cars rather than desks, Hafriz Shah ditched his suit and tie to join the ranks of Malaysia’s motoring hacks. A car’s technical brilliance is completely lost on him, appreciating character-making quirks more. When not writing this ego trip of a bio, he’s usually off driving about aimlessly, preferably in a car with the right combination of three foot pedals and six gears.

do u even use ur eyes? obviously that suv was reversing to another lane.. if that bike place was taken by a car would u be saying this?.. and that bike was stopping at the middle of the lane.. its not even a lane splitting!

And we see rat brain fast cars drivers who tailgate so closely, drives like a maniac and endangering other road users. Oh it gets better, when they are in a big group, they race and act like gangster on the road.

That video shows an incompetent student driver who panics. Nothing to do with the type of vehicle.

Sometimes, drivers of auto transmission cars can reverse abruptly thinking that they have engaged the forward gear. I have seen such case where the front car reverse and crashed into the back car at traffic lights. It won’t happen to manual cars because reverse gear are operated slightly different from the forward gear.

Something similar happened to me. A college student reversed his car at high speed into mine. I kept honking but he still continued reversing fast. He hit my car and didn’t have the courtesy of saying sorry or to even look at me. What an idiot.

This “new” driver staying opposite my house likes to reverse straight into my driveway, right up to my gate (because that’s the easiest way for him). Anyways, one day, I had just pushed my bike out and parked on the drive way (to close and lock the gate). When I got on the bike, he was reversing directly on to my path, and I started to honked when the bumper was three feet away from my front wheel but he kept on reversing and knocked into my bike and I fell and was bruised. Some people just doesn’t seemed to have spatial awareness….

I think I had the most bizarre experience with female driver. There was this one time I was at KL GH queuing behind another car to pay for the parking ticket(pay directly at the exit guard house). So this lady was walking pass in front of my car to get into her car which is parked exactly to the left of my car(the front passenger seat). She even lifted up her hand at me to make the STOP sign to alert me to let her pass first. After she got onto her car, she reversed her car straight towards my car and BANG!!! Imagine the first sentence that came out from her mouth when she got off from her car. “Sorry, I didn’t noticed your car was behind my car!!!!” Can you believe that?

when you reversing, always lower a bit of your side windows, this will help you to hear much more if there is a pedestrian or other vehicles that u cannot see by mistakes,
this is what i practice from experience, not from driving school

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